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way to the sea. A portion of the castle contains the museum of the Sussex 

 Archaeological Society. Mount Harry, the site of the defeat of Henry III. by 

 Earl Simon de Montfort in 1264, lies 3 miles to the east of it. Ncichaven, at 

 the mouth of the Ouse, is merely an outport of London, whence there is regular 

 communication with Dieppe. Close to the railway station may be seen a mill, the 

 motive power of which is supplied by the tide. Formerly the Ouse entered the 

 sea at Seaford, a quiet watering-place about 2 rhiles farther east. 



EastbouDic, on the eastern side of Beachy Head, consists of an old village at 



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some distance from the sea, and a modern watering-place, far more quiet in 

 appearance than are its rivals, Brighton and Hastings. But whilst the old village 

 of Eastbourne has grown into a populous town, its neighbour PereuHcij, on the site 

 of the Roman Portiis Anderida, and affiliated to Hastings as one of the Cinque 

 Ports, has been deserted by the sea, and has dwindled into a poor village, whose 

 houses nestle at the base of a JSTorman castle reared upon Roman foundations. As 

 one of the Cinque Ports, Pevensey was exempted from customs dues, and enjoyed 

 special fishery rights, on condition of its providing a certain nuraberof men-of-war 



